Nature And Environment Quotes - Page 5

• God cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Tree, Avalanches, Fool

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• Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

  Margaret Fuller

  Nature, Rivers, Exception To The Rule

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Presidential, Development

  Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.119, Vintage

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• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Stay Strong

  "The Wright Style". Book by Carla Lind, p. 3, 1992.

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• To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Nature, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.379, Rajpal & Sons

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• The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Son, Men

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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  It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

  Ansel Adams

  Nature, Fighting, Government

  "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.

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• In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

  Aristotle

  Life, Nature, Philosophical

  "Parts of Animals". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 645a.16,

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• A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

  John James Audubon

  Nature, Children, Father

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  Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Summer, Peace

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Imagination, Environment

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, God, Lonely

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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• And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

  Margaret Mead

  Nature, Carpe Diem, Society

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  God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Nature, Sea, Tree

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books

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• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

  John Muir

  Motivational, Wisdom, Nature

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

  John Muir

  Nature, Adventure, Garden

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

  Stephanie Mills

  Safe Environment, Earth Day, Environmental

  Stephanie Mills (1990). “In Praise of Nature”, p.97, Island Press

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• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspirational, Men, Wild Life

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 1

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• Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

  John Ruskin

  Appreciation, Nature, Sunset

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• I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Change, Nature, Garden

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